Cinema: All Buckle & No Swash

Stop Train 349. From West Berlin, a sealed U.S. military train rolls by night
through the Soviet-occupied East German Republic. Destination: Frankfurt.
Its passengers are the usual assemblage of harassed or abrasive or mysterious
strangers. Most objectionable of the lot is José Ferrer as a famous newsman
with a nose for international incidents. Sure enough, an incident occurs when a
French nurse (Nicole Courcel) helps a frightened refugee to jump aboard the
train. Thus a U.S. lieutenant (Sean Flynn), commanding officer of the
train, is caught between the quadripartite treaty and the Brotherhood of Man.
When the Soviets uncouple the engine...